Dream Catcher 19 reinforces our international outlook. There are stories and poems global in reach and universal in theme. You'll find excellent writing from Syria and India, the United States and New Zealand, Argentina and Iran, as well as from all corners of the UK.

Kit Habianic writes with candour about the war in Iraq from a squaddie's point of view. Julieta Garcia Gonzalez takes us into the minds of a painter and his model as he searches for inspiration. Susan Wicks is a poet, novelist and memoirist; her short story Baby a new mother brings her child home to a sink estate, a place of noises and momentary violence, all backdrop to her beginnings as a mother.

Poet Alexis Lykiard takes us through Ten Ways of Coping with the Dentist while Julian Stannard roams from Naples to Piedmont in Napoli Tristesse and Mexico 1, Italy 0. Derek Collins meanwhile, writes about mathematicians in Warsaw.

Artwork in this issue is by Rudi Matzk, a Lincoln-based artist.

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